“3 Faces of Time” by Sam Merwin, Jr. London: John Spencer & Co./Badger Books SF-29 (1960). Cover Art by Ed Emshwiller (Emsh). Re-used cover from Ace D-121.

            “Present and Future Clash in a World of the Past!”

An expanded version of “Journey to Misenum” published in “Startling Stories,” August 1953.  

From the back cover:

Invaders on Time’s Hidden Battlefield

On the universal time-track, this alternate Earth was two thousand years behind.  While in our world and its parallel twins science was surging ahead, there it was still Ancient Rome.  Yet though chariots rolled the streets, behind a secret wall crouched an ultra-modern army of flying tanks, atomic artillery, and tough American G.I’s!

For in this backward Earth there was a menace that had to be met and blocked . . . a stalking foe from a devastated world of the far future, a hungry, vicious, depraved planet seeking new lands to replace its own radioactive ruins!  And the key to this fantastic battle between the past, the present, and the future was a lone American girl, Elspeth Marriner, Time Watcher.  

THREE FACES OF TIME is another science-fiction triumph from the pen of Sam Merwin, Jr., author of HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS.

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Badger Books were published between 1959 and 1967 in a number of genres, predominantly war, westerns, romance, supernatural and science fiction.  In common with other “pulp” or mass-market publishers of the time, Badger Books focused on quantity rather than quality.  A new title in each of the major genres appeared each month, generally written to tight deadlines by low-paid authors.  One of the most remarkable facts about Badger Books is that much of its output was produced by just two authors (using a range of house names and other pseudonyms).  John Glasby (over 300 novels and short stories) and Robert Lionel Fanthorpe (over 200 novels and stories).   [Wikipedia]

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